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How Does Temporary Agency Work Impact German Agency Workers?
Spermann, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
satisfaction, commitment, health, employability, social participation and effects on personal life for agency workers. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884386
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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations
Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … employability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959821
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Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non-displaced workers. We then use a differencein- difference strategy to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763786
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"Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness
Gerards, Ruud; de Grip, Andries; Witlox, Maaike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims … to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of …, we find that voucher use positively affects worker employability awareness and willingness to train. Remarkably …
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